If evil didn't exist than how can we define good?

I asked a similar question the other day and people on YA didn't seem to get what I was getting at. I mean cold is the absence of heat. But what if in an alternate reality cold didn't exist at all for the sake of argument. Then how could we or at least re-defined heat? That's my point with evil and... show more I asked a similar question the other day and people on YA didn't seem to get what I was getting at. I mean cold is the absence of heat. But what if in an alternate reality cold didn't exist at all for the sake of argument. Then how could we or at least re-defined heat? That's my point with evil and good. How can one exist without the other?

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Good and evil are two sides of the same coin...... whatever seems good from one perspective, it seems evil from an opposite perspective..... not only do good and evil coexist, they are in fact inseparable !!

And indeed good is defined by evil, just the same way as evil is defined by good.

It could say God is absolute goodness in that He's infinite bliss, infinite power and infinite knowledge. Because God is the only being that exists, His powers get translated into illusion when the universe is created, and when that happens it creates limited goodness that creates duality with limited evil.

The Apple is not evil, evil does not really exist, much like devil and hell do not really exist, those relgious terms for occult values to indoctrine into mental floss of the human mind, nothing more, they create a hater for their wrongs, and impose them on the innocent to play along,

You either promote the mass of Christ, or debunk to Boxing Day sales, which to both are founded on nothing real but profits for the beliefs of those that buy in.
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There are also many other references to various
types of world ages or Ages of Man in Hopi
(worlds), Mayan (suns) and other cultures of
antiquity. Giorgio de Santillana, the former
professor of the history of science, mentions
approximately thirty ancient cultures that
believed in the concept of a series of ages and
the rise and fall of history, with alternating
Dark and Golden Ages.

More details of these Ages are available in the
Yuga concept of the Hindus. The present age
is known as Kali Yuga (age of darkness, Iron Age).

If our definitions of good and evil depended upon each other, they would be circular definitions.

"I mean cold is the absence of heat."

Evil isn't the absence of good. Otherwise everything that isn't good would be evil. Rocks and trees would be evil. In reality we consider them neutral. A lack of something is not the same as something's opposite. Using hot and cold as an analogy is confusing because we think of hot and cold as sensations the body feels. We aren't imagining the concept of average particle kinetic energy. Given that cold is a sensation in itself (often painful), and not simply the absence of the feeling of heat, in our everyday language it is reasonable to consider cold to be the opposite of hot, and not simply an "absence".

They are comparatives, not absolutes. They are degrees of goodness (or badness) ranging from 0 to 100%.
If you shorten the scale, the comparatives still exist. They are still degrees of goodness or badness but the range is smaller. What would have been average becomes the new bad. When the scale gets smaller, we tend to subdivide it more so we would consider the qualities of goodness/badness in more detail.

The black and white universe does not exist. If you take away the “ultimate” evil there would be little evils and even in paradise the worst day there would be “evil” You do not need your house to burn down to have the concept “fire”.

I personally do not believe evil exists. The opposite of good is not evil, but BAD. Things that don’t go my way are bad. Things that go my way are good. If everything went my way the smallest of my joys would become “bad”. No extreme necessary.